On today’s show, activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discusses are new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment.
Hard Knock Radio
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Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.
we discuss Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new book Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, and Manifest Destiny: Dreaming of Empire. This book strives to set the record straight, to educate, to enlighten and to enliven the people against the corruptions of empire—corruptions that stretch from Columbus’s first steps on Hispaniola through yesterday’s murderous drone attack. The prevailing myth is that … Continued
We speak with poet, playwright and activist Jessica Care Moore about Black Women Rock! and honoring women legends of the past. Greg Bridges and artist Ideeyah joined us for this insightful conversation.
The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. … Continued
Nomi Prins talks about her latest book Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World. In this searing exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have overstepped their … Continued
We speak with James Rucker of Majority Action about Sandra Froman who is a white supremacist on the NRA board. And later Poor News Network pays tribute to Kiilu Nyasha. photo credit @ Flickr
we speak with Tina Bell Wright about Donald Trump, white supremacy, and the racialization of a nation. Tina Wright, Ph.D is a professor at Los Angeles Southwest College.
We speak with Eli Jacobs Fantauzzi about the Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico. Later we discuss the United States failure to submit a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination with long-time housing and human rights activist Needa B and Steven DeCaprio the executive director of The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) The Photo Credit @Eli Jacobs … Continued
The Importance of Black History Education and The Whitest White House
Hodari Davis discusses the importance of education and Mumia Abu-Jamal explores the realities of Donald Trump in the White House.
We speak with Jabali Smith, the author of Slave: A Human Trafficking Survivor Finds Life. Jabali Smith was a 6-yr-old in Berkeley, California when he was trafficked along with his sister over the border into Mexico and held captive by a messianic doomsday sex cult. SLAVE courageously and boldly chronicles his journey as a child … Continued